The Nation Warmly Supports the Two Important Decisions by Central Leading Organs

THE whole Party, the whole army and the people of all nationalities throughout China have expressed warm support for the Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the State Council and the Military Commission of the C.P.C. Central Committee on the Establishment of a Memorial Hall for the Great Leader and Teacher Chairman Mao Tsetung and the Decision or the C.P.C. Central Committee on the Publication of the Selected Works of Mao Tsetung and the Preparations for the Publication of the Collected Works of Mao Tsetung. The masses of Communist Party members, the masses of the people and the commanders and fighters of the People's Liberation Army warmly hail the two decisions as fully reflecting the aspirations of the 300 million Chinese people and as a tremendous inspiration to the whole nation. The people of all nationalities have declared their firm determination to carry out Chairman Mao's behests, uphold Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought, adhere to Chairman Mao's proletarian revolutionary line and "practise Marxism, and not revisionism; unite, and don't split; be open and aboveboard, and don't intrigue and conspire." They have pledged to rally most closely round the Party Central Committee headed by Comrade Hua Kuo-feng, take class struggle as the key link, adhere to the Party's basic line, deepen the struggle to criticize Teng Hsiao-ping and repulse the Right deviationist attempt to reverse correct verdicts, grasp revolution and promote production and other work and preparedness against war, consolidate and develop the achievements of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and carry through to the end the cause of the proletarian revolution in China which Chairman Mao pioneered. Early in the morning of October 9 when the news of the two decisions by the central leading organs reached the cities and countryside in the 29 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions and the various P.L.A. units, it evoked immediate enthusiastic response from the armymen and people across the land. They said: We have boundless esteem for Chairman Mao and cherish a deep memory of him. The establishment of a memorial hall for the great leader and teacher Chairman Mao Tsetung will enable the people of our country and all future generations to pay their respects to his remains and this will be a great education and inspiration to the people of ail nationalities throughout the country. Chairman Mao Tsetung inherited, defended and developed Marxism-Leninism in all respects and enriched the treasure house of Marxist theory in the course of protracted revolutionary struggles. Chairman Mao's works are immortal Marxist-Leninis' documents. The publication of the Selected Works of Mao Tsetung Volume V and the subsequent volumes and the Collected Works of Mao Tsetung will be a great event in the history of the development of Marxism: it is of great immediate importance and far-reaching historic significance. We must respond to the call of the Party Central Committee, bring about a new upsurge in studying works by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin and by Chairman Mao, firmly grasp the powerful weapon of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought, struggle against the bourgeoisie inside and outside the Party, struggle against revisionism and win still greater victories in the socialist revolution and construction. In Peking, the capital, Communist Party and Communist Youth League organizations at all levels and the masses of workers, peasants and soldiers held meetings to study the two decisions. They said: The adoption of these decisions is a great event the people throughout the country have been looking forward to since I he passing of Chairman Mao. The publication of the two decisions fully shows that the Party Central Committee headed by Comrade Hua Kuo-feng is of one heart with the people of the whole country. Veteran workers at the Peking No. 1 Machine Tools Plant said that the central leading organs' decision to erect Chairman Mao Tsetung's memorial hall in Peking to let the people pay their respects to Chairman Mao's remains is of extremely great significance in teaching our generation and the generations to come to carry out Chairman Mao's behests and continue the revolution for ever. Students of the Kaoshan nationality at the Central Institute for Nationalities said: The compatriots in Taiwan Province cherish the memory of Chairman Mao day and night. The establishment of Chairman Mao's memorial hall will enable the people of all nationalities of the motherland to pay their respects to the remains of the esteemed and beloved great leader Chairman Mao. We will never forget Chairman Mao's magnificent contributions and our great indebtedness to him. Members of the Party branch of the Tapailou Production Brigade of the Hunghsing People's Commune on the outskirts of Peking said: We will lead all our Party members, cadres and commune members in assiduously studying works by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin and by Chairman Mao, and arm our Party branch with Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought so as to build it into a militant fortress in combating and preventing revisionism. When news of the two decisions by the central leading organs reached Hsiangtan Prefecture in Hunan Province on October 9, the people there rejoiced, saying: These two decisions come closest to our hearts. We will unite most closely round the Party Central Committee headed by Comrade Hua Kuo-feng, carry out Chairman Mao's behests and set off a new high tide in studying the works by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin and by Chairman Mao and carry through to the end the Chinese proletarian revolutionary cause Chairman Mao pioneered. They restudied Chairman Mao's teaching "Practise Marxism, and not revisionism; unite, and don't split; be open and aboveboard, and don't intrigue and conspire" and pledged to wage resolute struggles against all statements and actions that run counter to these three basic principles. They said: Our Party was founded by Chairman Mao himself and has been long-tempered in the flames of class struggle and the two-line struggle, and it is a great, glorious and correct Party. Historical experience shows that our Party cannot "be easily destroyed. Anyone who betrays Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought and tampers with Chairman Mao's directives, and anyone who practises revisionism and splittism and engages in conspiracies is bound to fail. The people of Shaoshan, Chairman Mao's home village, in Hunan Province, gathered that day before the former residence of Chairman Mao and enthusiastically supported the two decisions by the central leading organs. They said: The two decisions have embodied our aspirations to honour the memory of Chairman Mao and study Mao Tsetung Thought. We will pass on Mao Tsetung Thought from generation to generation. We will rally still more closely round the Party Central Committee headed by Comrade Hua Kuo-feng, carry forward the revolutionary tradition and continue our advance along Chairman Mao's revolutionary line. In Chingkang Mountain Prefecture and in the old revolutionary base area of Tungku County where Chairman Mao led the Autumn Harvest Uprising, the cadres and poor and lower-middle peasants said: Invincible Mao Tsetung Thought will always be our guide in the struggle to win constant new victories. The people of Yenan who had lived and fought together with Chairman Mao for 13 years love best to study Chairman Mao's works. How they long to have the opportunity to pay their respects to Chairman Mao's remains and strengthen their will to continue the revolution. How they long to see more of Chairman Mao's works coming off the press to direct the revolutionary struggle in the days to come. They enthusiastically supported the two decisions and pledged that they would conscientiously study and get a really good grasp of Mao Tsetung Thought and carry through to the end the proletarian revolutionary cause in China pioneered by Chairman Mao. In Shanghai, workers in printing houses undertaking the printing of Chairman Mao's works were very excited on hearing the decisions. Veteran workers of the Chunghua Printing House said: Since the start of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, we have printed with great care more than 31 million copies of Chairman Mao's works, over 17 times the total figure for the years preceding the Cultural Revolution. Since Chairman Mao's passing, we printers, full of love for Chairman Mao, have been looking forward day and night to assignments from the Party Central Committee to print the Selected Works of Mao Tsetung Vol. V. Now the Party Central Committee has made the decision to publish this new volume. We pledge to give our very best to the successful accomplishment of the glorious task of printing it. Veteran workers of the Chairman Mao's philosophical works study group of the Tientsin No. 2 Woollen Mill said: The publication of the Selected Works of Mao Tsetung Vol. V and the Collected Works of Mao Tsetung will give us, the working class, additional sharp weapons for the struggle against the bourgeoisie and revisionism. We must assiduously read and study Chairman Mao's works so that we will always have Mao Tsetung Thought as our guide in struggle. Party organizations at all levels of the Taching Oilfield held meetings at which the masses of Party members and workers recalled the fighting course in building and developing the oilfield by relying on Chairman Mao's On Practice and On Contradiction. They understand deeply that but for the guidance of Mao Tsetung Thought, there would not have been a Taching Oilfield at all and that the oilfield developed entirely by relying on Mao Tsetung Thought. They pledged to launch a new upsurge in studying works by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin and by Chairman Mao and keep the invincible banner of Mao Tsetung Thought flying over the Taching Oilfield for ever. Members of the Party branch of the Tachai Brigade in Hsiyang County, Shansi Province, said: Mao Tsetung Thought has been the source of our strength in keeping to the socialist road and the guarantee of our victory. The poor and lower-middle peasants of Tachai will study Mao Tsetung Thought even more assiduously, adhere to Chairman Mao's revolutionary line and always strive to win new victories in the socialist revolution and construction. Worker-peasant-soldier theoretical study activists in many places said: The Party Central Committee's decision on the publication of the Selected Works of Mao Tsetung Vol. V and the preparations for the publication of the Collected Works of Mao Tsetung has been made to meet the Chinese people's needs in continuing the revolution and the needs of the international proletariat and labouring people in their endeavours for liberation. Once Mao Tsetung Thought is grasped by the masses of the people, it turns into an inexhaustible force. Educated young people who have settled in border regions have warmly responded to the Party Central Committee's call for a new upsurge in the study of works by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin and by Chairman Mao and pledged to study Chairman Mao's works conscientiously in connection with the struggle to criticize Teng Hsiao-ping and repulse the Right deviationist attempt, consolidate and develop the great achievements of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, strike roots in the border regions and make revolution in the countryside all their lives. With boundless respect and love for the great leader Chairman Mao, printers in Foochow and Changchun said they will prepare in every way for the publication of the Selected Works of Mao Tsetung Vol. V and the Collected Works of Mao Tsetung to contribute their share in spreading Mao Tsetung Thought all over the country and the world. The people of various nationalities in the vast border areas of the motherland have warmly supported the two decisions. They said: We are determined to rally still more closely round the Party Central Committee headed by Comrade Hua Kuo-feng, exert ourselves in studying Chairman Mao's brilliant thought and, under the guidance of his revolutionary line, build our motherland's border areas into indestructible iron bastions. The commanders and fighters of the Chinese People's Liberation Army have expressed firm support for the two decisions. Commanders and fighters of the naval vessels Loyang and Changchiang and a heroic air force unit, which Chairman Mao had inspected, said that they were resolved to conscientiously study works by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin and by Chairman Mao, further strengthen army building and, under the leadership of the Party Central Committee, fight bravely for the carrying out of Chairman Mao's revolutionary line. Commanders and fighters in various units, all over the country said: All our victories have been won under the guidance of Mao Tsetung Thought and the Party's absolute leadership. We pledge to respond to the call of the Party Central Committee, exert ourselves in studying Mao Tsetung Thought well, rally closely round the Party Central Committee headed by Comrade Hua Kuo-feng, resolutely safeguard the unity and unification of the Party, earnestly implement the Three Main Rules of Discipline and the Eight Points for Attention, obey orders of the Party Central Committee in all our actions and, under the leadership of the Party Central Committee, study hard, deepen the criticism of Teng Hsiao-ping and the struggle to repulse the Right deviationist attempt, and work energetically to fulfil the fighting tasks assigned us by the Party Central Committee. They said: We are determined to heighten our vigilance a hundredfold and do our best in opposing aggression by imperialism and social-imperialism and in the struggle to liberate Taiwan Province —our motherland's sacred territory.